One comment; Why? :)
We've been in that discussion before. In my opinion, we should probably
rethink our whole deprecation approach.
Yes, I know that people don't like the burden of maintaining downwards
compatibility. I sure as hell don't. But PHP's huge popularity boost put
the development team in a position where it has *a lot* of
responsibility; Doing the wrong thing will reflect badly on PHP and its
acceptance as a stable solution (not segfault wise, but development wise).
On the other hand, I really don't like the bloat either.
So, what should be done? In my opinion, the approach of adding E_NOTICE
notifications to functions doesn't cut it; It won't significantly improve
the situation. I think we should go in a different path (or an 'extended'
path) - IMHO, the best approach would be adding some sort of a
'LEAN_AND_MEAN' mode to PHP's build. When built in this mode, bloat code
will be #define'd away, or displayed as 'deprecated' in a similar manner to
the way warn_not_available works. That gives everyone almost everything -
people who care about the bloat (like me) will build it in LEAN_AND_MEAN
mode, hosting companies or legacy sites, who care most about having their
code go on working with minimum hassle - won't mind the added bloat. If
kept closely documented, people who care enough about the bloat will be
able to go through the checklist, make sure their sites are compatible with
it, and turn this mode on.
The only drawback I see to this approach is that the code itself remains
and 'bloats' the various files. We can probably overcome this problem by
separating legacy code to separate files.
Zeev
At 22:28 14/5/2001, Sterling Hughes wrote:
>howdy,
> Just sending a note about the deprecation of the call_user_method()
> functions. It basically sends an E_NOTICE message now when
> call_user_method() or call_user_method_array() are called. This is
> because the call_user_method() and call_user_method_array() functions can
> easily be duplicated by:
>
>old way:
>call_user_method($func, $obj, "method", "args", "go", "here");
>
>new way:
>call_user_func(array(&$obj, "method"), "method", "args", "go", "here");
>
>Comments? Questions?
>
>-Sterling
>
>
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